Lucinda Franks
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Lucinda Franks is a former staff writer for The New York Times, and she has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic. Franks is also the first female winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for her reporting on The Weathermen, an anti-Vietnam war terrorist group.[1]. A graduate of Vassar College class of 1968, Franks discovered that her father had been a secret agent during World War II, and wrote a book about it, My Father's Secret War: A Memoir, in 2007. She lives in New York City with her husband, District Attorney for New York County Robert M. Morgenthau.
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- Interview on My Father's Secret War
